R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Produc

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Produc data set which pertains to Us States Production . The Produc data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Produc data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Produc"). This will load the data into a variable called Produc. If R says the Produc data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Produc R data set. The size of this file is about 63,987 bytes.

Us States Production

Description

a panel of 48 observations from 1970 to 1986

number of observations : 816

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Produc)

Format

A dataframe containing :

state: the state
year: the year
pcap: private capital stock
hwy: highway and streets
water: water and sewer facilities
util: other public buildings and structures
pc: public capital
gsp: gross state products
emp: labor input measured by the employment in non–agricultural payrolls
unemp: state unemployment rate

Source

Munnell, A. (1990) “Why has productivity growth declined? Productivity and public investment”, New England Economic Review, 3–22.

Baltagi, B. H. and N. Pinnoi (1995) “Public capital stock and state productivity growth: further evidence”, Empirical Economics, 20, 351–359.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons, http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/.

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